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University Degrees

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The degradation of university degrees over my life-time, is tragic. Readers familiar with my novel of 20 years back, “Degrees For Everyone” will understand. Consider this. A regular contributor in the NZ Herald is a Canterbury University sociologist, (a bogus subject lacking any intellectual element) namely

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The End of the Beginning of the Battle of the Bulges

The End of the Beginning of the Battle of the Bulges

Britain nearly got lucky, last year. Nearly. Back in July 2022, when Britain’s ruling Conservatives were casting about for a replacement for the unlamented Boris Johnson, one name that stood out from the pack of CINOs and globalist toadies was Kemi Badenoch. As I wrote back then: If Badenoch

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The Academic Malaise of NZ’s Schools

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11-13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1-13. alwynpoole.substack.com St

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It’s Ok to Teach the Greatness of the West

It’s Ok to Teach the Greatness of the West

Is there still hope left for the West’s universities? Probably not, to be honest. Some are giving it the ol’ college try (pun intended) of course: New College of Florida, a public liberal arts college in Sarasota, has just abolished its Gender Studies department. Provoking the predictable howling fury

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Abolishing Gender Studies Is a Good Start

Abolishing Gender Studies Is a Good Start

As I’ve asked several times, now, Is it Time to Bulldoze the Universities? Of course, I was half-joking when I first put the question. Only half. But less and less so, as the years have rolled on. Perhaps, though, there are less drastic alternatives. Just bulldoze a couple of

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Why Won’t They Teach Teachers to Teach?

More and more, it seems almost undeniable that schools are deliberately grooming generations of children who are righteously ignorant. Who cares if they can’t spell or do basic maths, so long as they can be relied on to “strike for climate”? Who cares if they don’t know that

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National Wants to Change How NZ Schools Teach Reading

Christine Braid Massey University theconversation.com If it wins the election, the National Party has vowed to shake up how children are taught to read and write. Part of this education overhaul includes a pledge to require the teaching of “structured literacy” in all year 0-6 classrooms. For many in

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Harvard University Has an F on Its Free Speech Report Card

Harvard University Has an F on Its Free Speech Report Card

Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.

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We Can Do Better

We Can Do Better

NM Zero point eight per cent. That’s the percentage of New Zealand’s population that was transgender or non-binary when measured by Statistics New Zealand in 2020. Yet this microscopic minority and its ideals are continuously being prioritised and enforced by the New Zealand Government through funding, access, and

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Do Not Comply

Do Not Comply

Robert W Malone MD, MS Inventor of mRNA & DNA vaccines, RNA as a drug. Scientist, physician, writer, podcaster, commentator and advocate. Believer in our fundamental freedom of free speech. rwmalonemd.substack.com By now, we probably have all heard about the Silver Spring Maryland elementary school that has put

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Big Lie on Campus

Big Lie on Campus

I often wonder if the feminist left believes the ludicrous nonsense that they do, only because they judge everyone else by the toxic men they surround themselves with. Who can forget, after all, the sight of Harvey Weinstein marching against sexual assault at the 2017 Women’s March at Sundance?

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We Don’t Want Gender Ideology at School

We Don’t Want Gender Ideology at School

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Here’s some news the mainstream media don’t want to report: there is significant opposition to gender ideology being

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Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

Yes to Women Builders, but What about the Male Teachers?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com I was intrigued to watch a TV news story (September 3) making a big deal out of a house in

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The Decline (Collapse?) Of Meaningful University Degrees

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Two decades back I wrote “Degrees For Everyone”, a comic novel on the collapse of universities as centres of academia. Instead, I claimed, they were now commercial ventures, dishing out nonsense degrees in non-academic topics. Since then university degrees (excluding the sciences, philosophy et al) have

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Teachers and the Issue of Preferred Pronouns

Teachers and the Issue of Preferred Pronouns

familyfirst.org.nz MEDIA RELEASE – 1 September 2023 Teacher Not Using Preferred Pronouns Shouldn’t Be Deregistered – Poll A new nationwide poll has found significant opposition to a decision which resulted in a teacher losing his teaching licence for refusing to recognise a student’s gender ‘identity’ and using the

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